Beautiful natural sculpture I found just in front of
my new view, amazing roofs of tanger.
ROOF // First Works in Tanger
I'm back in Tanger, Morocco,, this time in Ana's house.
I've been all week going up to the building roof enjoying
the amazing light and view, the walls are so beautiful and
inspiring!
I found some things on the floor in a closing market I've visit
some days ago. I used a oxidate metalic base I have found in
a waste ground. The result its a collage of materials and
textures playing with the shadow.
PLANETA LOVE // show
Some weeks ago I made an small installation in a
corner inside a bar in barcelona, where I showed
part of my last work.
This summer that its allready gone,,, I produce
some sculptures in my grandfather's atelier,,,
this amazing place. Things as plastic protector for
fruit boxes, drawingpins, small pieces of aluminum,
colour tape, roppes, peaces from computer, screws,
and more.
PLANETA LOVE
Next saturday 19th december, I will be in:
cafe art SOL DE NIT
Juan de Garay, 5 (Underground/camp de l´arpa)barcelona.
Presenting some sculptures I've been doing
last months all together with some others ideas.
TANGER morocco // street art
While I was in Tanger participating in a And'Art
festival I have meet Antonio, a wall painter from
spain, Marzia, a filmaker from Italy and Ana a
spanish photographer who lives in tanger.
Close to Ana's house, behind the medina, its an
area between house buildings with some nice trees
and shacks. Most of the children play there.. it's like
a secret place.
I colaborate with them making this place nicer for
the comunity.
Looking on the floor I found objects and waste
material and with those I create an sculpture at
one of the walls. The piece it's a kind of fountain
that can be activate with a floor pulsing pedal.
I used a big orange plastic botlle, part of a blue
broom, blue threads and the top of an orange
electrical appliance.
AND'ART tanger // exhibition
And'art, that means visions in Arabic it's a new itinerant
art-music festival in Morocco. In this first edition the
festival has been happening in the city of Tanger. We
were a total of 20 participants counting musicians,
filmmakers, photografers, painters and sculptors. Was so
good to be together with people from differents nationalities,
including of courses moroccans artists. In my group we were
4 people, for some days we moved around the city and
discussed and talked about our impression and feelings.
Next we started working in a project together and
aswell in a individual piece.
The two pictures above are from the market called
"Casabarata", It was amazing for me to discovered,
I love this place, you can find everything, full of energy.
I spoke to some people from there and they told me
more about the place. Three months ago, in the night
some diggers came and pulled down parts of the market,
nobody could tell me why they did it. The first picture
shows how is the situation now. The consequence is that
some people are looking in the ruins trying to find metal
or things which they can sell.
This is how I started recollecting and looking for materials
and objects for my individual piece.
Photo by Sammy Izri
AND'ART tanger // outside work
We made a project at the outside Haddad theater
with the three artist I was collaborating with: Rocca,
Mia and Stephanie. We decided to do an sculptur-action
in the street because we found fundamental to interact
with the residents.
From Casabarata market we found objects that we
transformed to a presents for the children. We
used a lot of colour ropes to hang them out.
PATCHWORLD
That's the flyer I made for my last exhibition
called Patchworld. It's a big instalation made
with Textil waste materials. Amazing samples
from the 70ths and 80ths.
The openning was on the 2nd october in the
Oficial Language School in Granollers, a city
next to Barcelona, and will be on untill middle
of december. Big Love.
PATCHWORLD exhibition
for 2 weeks and a half in EOI (escola oficial de Idiomes),
and it was fantastic. I was going everyday in the morning
and leaving in the night, doing my art in the corridors,
meeting the students, talking to them and beeing inspired
from the way they behave.
All the materials I used for the installation were from and
old textil factory that had to close down. I arrived to the
school one morning with all the stuff, having only some ideas
in my head. That's the reason I really enjoyed doing this
work-in-progress.
cardboard textil samples, they are very old,
and most of the patterneted very funny,
have a look.
One of the bench covered with samples and
finished with tape.
...doing lines with the cardboard samples at the
corridors walls, clossing somehow the toilets and
the classroom doors, some of the students didn't
know what to do.... just first day.
samples, they were used for the sweaters sellers,
they could show to the clients the material.
In the last room of the installation I inspired myself
with a kind of Haima, I wanted to give to the students
the oportunity to relax and enjoy the class breaks,
making them to feel good and positive, with a special
energy, created because of the falling threads, the
fabric samples and the fluorescent red-pink light.
My intention after this good-positive feeling it's to
make them thinking about this new place, that is
completly diferent that what they could expect.
ROAD traffic post
Sometimes looking deep to the city streets and roads
I feel that everything it's standard and the same.
In me grow up the feeling to put some fun where hardly
exist.
The idea of making a road post came because I found
in my grandsfather's atelier an old iron tube and some
waste material like a plastic protector from a fruit boxes,
wire, tape, drawing pins, elastic band, metal shaving and
lentejuelas.
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BERLIN STREET Bethanien damm
I found special energie in this house close to
Bethanien (Art centre in Kreuzberg), a amazing
tree coming through from inside to outside the
house.
Work made only with waste materials: plastic
packaging, electric cable, potatoes wrapper and
colour plastic sheets. Most of the material I used
I took it from a work I had in a kitchen in berlin.
The graffiti looks pretty nice in the house.
BERLIN STREET Muskauerstr
Berlin for me it's like a gallery, the feeling
of art it's almost everywhere. I have the need
to use all this art as an inspiration and colaboration
with my creativity.
In this case it's a composition ready-made before
In this case it's a composition ready-made before
and put it in graffiti wall.
For this work I used the Typical straws that
everybody knows, I put them inside adhesive
transparent plastic, I used some yellow paint
and blue plastic string.
BERLIN STREET Görlitzer park
Adhesive transparent plastic, fabric and
acrilic paint.
Funny work for me using the graffiti walls,
I found so atractive and very inspiring
some of the graffitis, I enjoy puting my work
in combination.
INSTALATION IN ESPAI NIU
is an art space used for a diferents events about
music and art.
I did prepare the space for a 8 hours event called
Cue, diferents artist came to the place and play music,
ACTION ZEITUNG PAINTING
I made this instalation as an Action painting, open to everybody
who felt to paint and wanted to express oneself to the others.
who felt to paint and wanted to express oneself to the others.
It was in a Neukölln festival in berlin, they gave me a
40 sq/m basement very dirty and humid, I didn't have any
money to invest....this is how I dicided to use newspaper, aswell
because in Deutschland some of the newspapers haven a
very beauty and well-made pictures.
FREE ART EXHIBITION
This people make a social theatre that help other people to
resolve social problems. They gave me the entrance room to use.
I made a kind of Square, a reunion place for the students and visitors.
The instalation is made with used material, and parts of
decorations I did use when I was working as a windowdresser.
MINIBLACK ART PROJECT
This work I made it for a Cava company in Spain, they wanted
me to exhibit his product in three diferents cloths shops in
barcelona.
I used furniture found it in the street, chairs,
small nigth table, etc I cut them and put together
again but in another way.
Aswell I recolled objects from others decorations
in my atelier and used them for the sculptures.
I paint them, in black, because of the advertisment
work. I would preference to keep them in natural.
OPEN STUDIOS EXHIBITION
a old factory in the neigthborhood of Gracia. I was sharing
space and creativity with fiftheen artists more, it was for me
the start of a view about life and art.
The following pictures are the exhibition we made inside our
working-comun space.
I made a work in the toilet, in the entrance stairs aswell
I put an sculpture in the room.
In the toilet I used a plastic containers covered in tape,
gold sheen fabric and a Picasso with bathrobe picture.
All this material was allready used in my windowdresser
jobs.
In the entrance I used green fluorescent ligth, colour plastic
sheets and tape.
The flying sculpture is made with wire, cotton fabric, fluor
paint and red vinyl fabric.
PAPER / CARDBOARD AND LIGHT
time with Cue berlin, the event was in
Hooker Projects in kreuzberg. we used
FACES
work. From diferents kinds of magazines I took all this face
pictures, I cuted them and put it together as a collage. It
was a lot of hours work, cuting somehow a bit boring but the
rest was interesant, to try to make a good combination
between the diferents faces.
For the floor I used the left paper from the cutting faces
and a thick plastic on top.
DER ZEBRASTREIFEN
Neukölln, where happens a festival called 48 Stunden.
In this area lives a lot of people with social problems and
few money. With this street work we tried to open peoples
mind.
The idea is very simple and eye-catching. One day seeing
a zebra crossing came the idea to make it real, puting a
zebra pattern fabric on the white street lines.
THEATERKAPELLE
literature and Theater. In this times he was preparing a
Tennesse Williams performance in a very special place called
Theaterkapelle in the neightborhood of Friedrichshain. He ask
me to collaborate, helping him with the set.
As usual it was no money, well : less money more creativity!
Anyway, I use the church bench for the scenery, turning and
leaving them in a vertical position, looking like a huges columns.
The best it's the holes from where the light comes from behind.
CUE BERLIN
In my second week in berlin I meet Diego in a open studios
in Glogauer strasse, he asked me what I was doing, and I
told him: "I work the space" and he proposed me to colaborate
with Cue. Cue was starting in a nice squared place filled with
sand. With no money, I decided to buy some plastic used for
protecting furniture from painting, fresh potatoes, toilet paper,
white rubbish bags, yellow and red tape and small objects.
In 8 hours we set the place for the night event. Was a nice
experience, working fast filling me of adrenaline.
ORANGE POTATOES
I was paid. I meet the deutsch leather designer
Monika Harbort, she has a beautiful shop in
the neighborhood of Gracia in barcelona. She
gave me the oportunity to be myself and
follow my inspiration.
I painted potatoes in fluor orange and I used
some natural rope to hold them.
In 3 weeks more or less I had to take them
away, because she didn't like the odour.
TAPING
This is a display I have made for a optician's shop in barcelona.
I used a base of cardboard and I apply on a black-yellow and
a yellow-green colour tape. I wanted to make a form close to
the idea of comic. Aswell I covered used recipients from xampu,
cleaning, beverage, etc.
Cardboard, recycle container and plastic stripe tape
STAND Bread and Butter barcelona /// taping
This work came to me because in this times I was doing
a lot of window shop and one of the shop brand's ask me
to make a stand for the german Bread and butter fair in
barcelona. The spanish brand wanted to show the new
T-shirts collection.
I designed the wood structure and made the furniture for
my own and I covered all with the two colours tape (red-white).
The good thing about this taping work its that everytime I put
one line of tape on the wood the result was different than the
last one (because it was more or less stretched).
In the end I created an optical effect, that was so cool to see.
a lot of window shop and one of the shop brand's ask me
to make a stand for the german Bread and butter fair in
barcelona. The spanish brand wanted to show the new
T-shirts collection.
I designed the wood structure and made the furniture for
my own and I covered all with the two colours tape (red-white).
The good thing about this taping work its that everytime I put
one line of tape on the wood the result was different than the
last one (because it was more or less stretched).
In the end I created an optical effect, that was so cool to see.
RELIGION
This work I made it for shop in barcelona,,
I created a religious atmosphere with a lot of
postcards of differents virgin laying them out
in a cross, aswell I used a big picture of one
of the virgins in one of the windows. For the
background and the flour I put red fabric.
And for creating a great ambient I used red
church candles with special light.
DROPPING
Furniture, different objects, plastic and paint
Installation for Tomate Shop:
www.tomate-bcn.com
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